Addressing with an Internet address

SOCKETS(BS2000) supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. IPv4 and IPv6 addresses have different lengths and are therefore identified by different address families:

• AF_INET supports the 4-byte IPv4 Internet address.

• AF_INET6 supports the 16-byte IPv6 Internet address.

The structure of these addresses and the form they take are described in the “BCAM Volume 1/2” manual.